Dwight Bartholomew

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A lovely cautionary tale about hacking, greed, and A.I. city services. I picked up "Unseen" at our library (in the new books display) on a whim... thinking it was about AI. And it is but the true focus is on a group of Gifted people who, individually, are super sensitive to... something; eg, empathy, plants, spatial location, and, my favorite, birds. The books title has a dual meaning: a growing complacency (mostly good) on a city's dependency on AI control on city services AND the background efforts of the Gifted band together to save the city. Ms Hird does a wonderful job of fully describing Gifted's lives and worries. With Hird's breezing writing style, Unseen is a lovely read.

Unseen

Very creepy movie bordering on psychotic horror. Not what we were expecting; disturbing enough that my wife and I were discussing it the next day. Still, it had something for everyone! For example, 1) White supremacists will like the film because... the white parents tried their best but ended up with a black bad seed. 2) Parental cautionary tale... do you “really” know what your kids are up to? In this film, the parents are the dupes. ... it goes on and on which, I guess, means it was a very dense, complex film. The ending is fittingly terrifying as we’re left with the impression that “the real” Luce (under all the golden veneer) is very angry. Along with his brilliance and sociopathy, he will graduate into a super predator. Ultimately, I left the theater frightened of Luce and trying very hard to NOT project this onto all Black Americans.

Luce

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